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IBM Chief: IT Investment Will Create JobsJanuary 6

IBM Chief: IT Investment Will Create Jobs

First hand deploying monitoring as a service solutions for the government at the centers for medicare and medicade I can tell you how utility computing would improve productivity, teamwork and most important cost savings for healthcare applications.

For my small businesses trademark "Monitoring-as-a-Serivce" I have explained on Wikipedia the value of paying for software in actual elapsed CPU time. [link]

"The mission for Monitoring as a Service is to provided the utility computing consumer with high value computing services at an affordable cost. This will not only streamline the cost structure for the consumer industry but also for government and non profit organizations as well. For instance, medical institutions can access high value utility computing services on an as needed basis to save thier customer money and life."

 The patent developed for my company UtilityStatus to monitor software usage for utility computing software based in actual elapsed CPU time has been designed for saving the customer money and in terms of healthcare this ultimatly means saving human pain and life.

Growing up in the silicon valley, california and seeing the world being lead in technology there, then stu

Cloud in a Box - Cloud Computing behind the firewallDecember 15 2008

Small startup pricing ( 1 year )

External Cloud - $3456 - 4 instances of 1-way $0.10

Internal Cloud -  $4000 - Colo ( ServePath ask for Joe ) and Cloud ( Tamgroup )

How to access the console? You can download the TN5250 terminal http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/

"Cloud in a Box" command prompt

"Distributed Cloud" command prompt EC2

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• Also the i6 has a built in web navigator for systems management funtions.
• https://<hostname>:2005/ibm/console/login.do?action=secure

 

Systems Managmenet on i5/OS (Hyperic - CloudStatus)

This tab includes the system status, system operator messages, history log, disk status, run a command, change password, application administration

 Hyperic - CloudStatus

Is OSS losing value?December 9 2008

Open source software benefits are great especially considering the initial investment of the software procurement. Sure there are challengers of open source software offering enterprise support services and cost benefit analysis proving value of a commercial product. Does open source software still have value in cloud computing environments and utility computing infrastructures?

Open source software provides support from large groups of internet developers that in some cases are larger than commercial software vendors. Advantages for larger and growing open source developer groups for products also include quick problem resolution at zero cost. In most cases just post a question on an open source developer board and recieve a response within minutes. Please note the quality of the response can vary.

A few months ago the open source guru said cloud computing is "Worse Than Stupidity" [link]. The value for open source software is deminishing with utility computing and cloud computing since services are hosted in software vendor data centers rather than on premise. There is no need for IT departments to download and maintain open source software with cloud computing and utility computing.

For me Utility Computing offers an opprotunity for developers as well as small businesses to consume and develop high value utilty computing services at an affordable cost

Amazon SimpleDB uses UtilityStatusDecember 3 2008

Source:  [link]

MarketWatch 12/01/08 [link]

Machine Utilization Example

Amazon SimpleDB measures the machine utilization of each request and charges based on the amount of machine capacity used to complete the particular request (QUERY, GET, PUT, etc.), normalized to the hourly capacity of a circa 2007 1.7 GHz Xeon processor. Machine utilization is driven by the amount of data (# of attributes, length of attributes) processed by each request. A GET operation that retrieves 256 attributes will use more resources than a GET that retrieves only 1 attribute. A multi-predicate QUERY that examines 100,000 attributes will cost more than a single predicate query that examines 250. Source: [link]

In the response message for each request, Amazon SimpleDB returns a field called Box Usage. Box Usage is the measure of machine resources consumed by each request. It does not include bandwidth or storage. Box usage is reported as the portion of a machine hour used to complete a particular request. The cost of an individual request is Box Usage (expressed in hours) * $0.14 per Amazon Simpl

Case Study - Private Cloud - Monitoring-as-a-Service (TM)November 19 2008

It is a story of rise and fall for the stock market as you know these days, ok ok more fall than rise. Does what goes up must go down also apply in the other direction as well? I think so, it can only get better from here. There was a system outage on Google Finance ticker for GOOG on September 30th 2008, the stock went to zero for 20 minutes, see slides below. GOOG stock holders could'nt see what was happening.

During that time and the begining of the financial crisis I was implementing a Monitoring-as-a-Service (TM) solution at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation for thier private cloud.

Here are a few snapshots of the slides I will be presenting tomorrow in San Francisco, CA. Your welcome to join here is the invitation.

Date: Nov 20th, 2008
Meeting time: 12:00 PST
Meeting location: 425 Market Street 19th floor, Room 201 San Francisco, CA
Meeting topic: ITCAM Implementation Case Study by Jason Meiers of CAM Solutions

Are you still monitoring your apps using log files or building custom JMX monitoring apps? You got to see this presentation.